{"id":7505,"date":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:00:00","slug":"simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify quote requests management with AI Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"
Microsoft AI Builder is a Power Platform capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes by learning insights from your data. Companies receive thousands of quotes requests which are manually processed. Thanks to Microsoft AI Builder this can be automated so your workforce can focus on other higher value tasks.<\/p>\n
Usually, customers request quotes by email which are processed with repetitive actions, identifying the product concerned, the quantity, checking the pricing applicable and potential rebates, finally answering the requester.<\/p>\n
AI can help to reduce the manual steps required by semi-automating the information gathering, lookups to the ERP and CRM system and preparing the response. This way you can save time and energy for more business impactful tasks like identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities and more.<\/p>\n
Microsoft AI Builder offers a wide range of natural language processing capabilities allowing to extract the relevant data in emails together with Microsoft Power Automate enabling to orchestrate the process\u2019 automation.<\/p>\n
In this context, Microsoft Power Automate can extract the raw text when an email arrives, send it to a prebuilt or customized AI Builder Entity Extraction model to extract the product name and quantity, and connect to your system matching the information required from the requestor to prepare the quotes.<\/p>\n
The agent must only perform the last mile by generating a document and replying to the requestor.<\/p>\n
NOTE:<\/strong> Generating documents is in our roadmap so even this last step could be automated soon.<\/p>\n The initial step is to build a Power Automate flow that will orchestrate the process as summarized in the figure below:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For this you can use built-in actions and connectors. A basic Microsoft Power Automate flow would look like this:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, you must decide wherever the default Entity Extraction model suits your scenario or if you need to build a custom one by providing sample data from past quotes requests to help the model learn your business context.<\/p>\n The AI Builder prebuilt entity extraction supports a list of predefined entities which may work in the most common cases. Follow this link to consult the list of entities extracted<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the below illustration we can see an example of what the prebuilt can achieve.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n If you need additional information than the one extracted by the prebuilt, follow the steps below or read this step-by-step guide<\/a>\u00a0to get started building your very own custom entity extraction model.<\/p>\n Now, each time a new quotes request arrives in the shared mailbox, the content will be analyzed, processed and a proposal will be sent to the processor contact.<\/p>\n You can read this story Ingram Micro frees thousands of hours for sales teams, unlocks new opportunities with automated sales quotes<\/a> to get more inspiration on a real customer case.<\/p>\n AI Builder public documentation is the place to start to learn more about\u00a0Entity Extraction custom model<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Entity Extraction prebuilt model<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft AI Builder is a Power Platform capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes by learning insights from your data. Companies receive thousands of quotes requests which are manually processed. Thanks to Microsoft AI Builder this can be automated so your workforce can focus on other higher value tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","power-automate-category":[2836],"power-automate-tag":[2445],"coauthors":[2187],"class_list":["post-7505","power-automate","type-power-automate","status-publish","hentry","power-automate-category-walkthroughs","power-automate-tag-ai-builder-case-study"],"yoast_head":"\nImplement the solution<\/h1>\n
Building the orchestration logic with Microsoft Power Automate<\/h4>\n
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Choosing a Microsoft AI Builder model to extract the information<\/h4>\n
Leveraging the prebuilt entity extraction model<\/h5>\n
Building a custom entity extraction model<\/h5>\n
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\n<\/span><\/li>\nOutcomes<\/h1>\n
Expected ROI<\/h1>\n
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Want to know more?<\/h1>\n